"You ca inside ."
"You noticed that, huh."
Her cheeks flushed darker. "I’m not on birth control."
Oh.
Fuck.
My brain caught up to my dick about fifteen seconds too late.
Right. Birth control. Real-world consequences. Things that mattered when you weren’t thinking with your downstairs brain.
"The ability—" I started.
"What about the ability?"
Good question. Did the Divine Milking System account for pregnancy? Was that even possible? The codex didn’t ntion it. The interface didn’t have a fertility tracker.
I ntally pulled up the status screen.
Nothing. No warnings. No alerts. No red flags.
Either it wasn’t a problem or the system didn’t care enough to tell .
Great. Super helpful.
"I think we’re fine," I said.
"You think?"
"The system would probably warn if—"
A notification popped up.
◆ EXTRACTION SESSION COMPLETE ◆
Target: Naomi Love (Silver Rank)
Session Duration: 43 minutes
Orgasms Achieved: 4
Essence Extracted: 2.25 cups
Points Earned: 450 points (25 pts/mouthful, 18 mouthfuls)
Lifespan Gained: 4 days 12 hours
Total Points: 1,000
Current Lifespan: 10 days 15 hours
DEVOTION UPDATE:
Naomi Love: 89% → 94%
Romantic Bond: Fully Established (Primary Partner)
Attraction: 78% → 96%
STATUS EFFECTS:
User: [Post-Orgasmic Clarity] (15 minutes)
[Sexual Training Bonus Applied]
Technique [C] → [B]
Endurance [E] 2 segnts
Strength [E] 1 segnt
CONGRATULATIONS: Ability theft threshold exceeded.
[Wave Motion] successfully stolen and equipped.
◆ ESSENCE TRANSFER DETECTED ◆
Reverse Extraction Completed: Jace → Naomi
Duration: 24 hours
Status Effect Applied: [Divine Empowernt]
BUFF DETAILS:
Wave Motion: Silver → Gold
Physical Performance: 125%
Stamina Recovery: Enhanced
Mana Capacity: 30%
I stared at the notification, searching desperately for any pregnancy warning. Nothing. No red text, no alert, no "Congratulations, you’re about to be a father" pop-up.
Fuuuuuuck.
But part of —the primal, lizard-brain part—felt smug satisfaction at coming inside her. It felt right. Natural. Perfect.
I pulled Naomi close against my chest, stroking her hair as her breathing steadied.
"I’ll buy you a morning-after pill after class tomorrow," I said. "But if anything happens... I’ll take responsibility."
She looked up, surprise flickering across her face.
"You’re my woman, Naomi," I continued, surprising myself with how much I ant it. "If you wanted it... I’d have no problem giving you a baby."
"We barely know each other," she whispered.
"I know enough."
Did I an that? Maybe. With Limit Breaker, I’d eventually beco strong enough to protect her and any child we had. Besides, I had my sights set on bigger targets. Blair Davenport was walking around with Platinum-tier essence and a trust fund that could solve any financial problems we might face.
"Let’s worry about that later," Naomi said, nestling closer. "I need to shower."
I pulled out slowly. We both made sounds.
Schlrp.
Naomi’s whole body shivered. "That feels so weird."
"You get used to it."
"Do I want to get used to it?"
I looked down at her. Lying there in my sheets. Covered in sweat and milk and . Her hair stuck to her forehead. Her chest still rising and falling with deep breaths.
She looked thoroughly fucked.
And she was looking back at with this soft expression that made my chest do sothing I refused to acknowledge.
"Yeah," I said quietly. "You do."
Her smile was small. Tired. Real.
"Okay," she said.
I rolled off her and onto my back. Stared at my ceiling. The real ceiling. Not the sanctum’s fake sky.
Naomi curled into my side imdiately. Her head on my shoulder. Her hand on my chest.
We lay there in silence for a solid minute.
Then she spoke.
"Jace?"
"Yeah?"
"We just had sex in your real bed."
"Yep."
"Your roommate is ho."
"Yep."
"Do you think he heard us?"
I considered Hikaru. Sitting out there on the couch, four ters away through a single thin closed door that had done absolutely nothing to muffle the last forty-three minutes.
Naomi’s screaming. The wet sounds. The headboard. The specific, deeply incriminating rhythm of springs that had been going at full volu for most of an hour.
And Hikaru, who had been trained since childhood to register every creak and footstep and displaced pocket of air in a room, who fought with invisible blades because her perception was sharp enough to track things no one else could see.
"Definitely," I said.
"Oh my god."
"He won’t say anything."
"How do you know that?"
"Because Hikaru barely says anything under normal circumstances. And a conversation about his roommate’s sex life falls sowhere in his personal hell that he will do anything to avoid. Including pretending he’s deaf."
Naomi made a strangled noise into my shoulder, sothing between a groan and a laugh that she imdiately tried to smother. "I have to walk past him to leave."
"So walk past him."
She pulled back to look at . "I’m covered in milk, Jace."
Fair.
I looked down at her properly for the first ti since we’d co back from the sanctum. Naomi’s chest was streaked with white, so of it already dried in thin lines across her skin, the rest still slick and wet. Her sports bra was crumpled sowhere near the foot of the bed. Her shorts were on the floor by the wall. My sheets were completely soaked through in two or three different ways I didn’t feel like categorizing.
This was genuinely a situation.
"Shower first," I said.
"In your bathroom?"
"That’s where I keep the shower, yeah."
"What if he hears the water running and knows I’m still in here?"
"Naomi." I turned my head to look at her directly. "He already knows. He heard everything. He is not going to say a single word about it because that would require him to acknowledge that other human beings have interior lives, which is a concept he finds deeply inconvenient. If he does care, he’s an adult and he can say sothing, which he won’t."
She bit her lip, pink and raw from the last hour of use. "This is so embarrassing."
"You spent forty-three minutes letting drink from your chest and then begged not to stop. Twice."
"That’s completely different!"
"Explain how."
"Because that was just us! Private! This is—" She waved one hand at the door, at the thin wall, at the whole implication of the apartnt beyond it. "This is soone else knowing about us. An actual person who goes to our school and sees in the halls."
I pressed my mouth to her forehead. Quick, no ceremony.
"Get used to it," I said. "Because I’m not done with you yet."
Her eyes went wide. "What does that an?"
I grinned.
"ans you’re coming back."
"Jace—"
"I need to bank more points and you need to help train my new ability."
"Your— your stole my ability?"
"Yep, looks like I got a weak copy of your ability."
She stared at . Processing. Then her expression shifted into sothing between disbelief and grudging acceptance.
"You’re welco?" she tried.
"Good girl."
Her face went crimson.
"Don’t—" She buried her face in my chest. "Don’t say that."
"Why not?"
"Because it does things."
"What kind of things?"
"Jace."
I laughed and pulled her closer.
Ninety-four percent devotion. Ninety-six percent attraction. Primary romantic partner. Four more days added to my lifespan. A stolen ability equipped. Stats climbing.
The Midnight Foxes quest was active. The combat assessnt was Friday. I had targets lined up. A system that worked. A girl in my bed who trusted enough to let ruin her completely.
Ten days and fifteen hours on my life clock.
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